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South manages a new app instead of syncdb

I've added a new app (specifically tastypie) and tried to syncdb however South won't let me. I get:

Not synced (use migrations):
 - tastypie

Why would South insist on this while I didn't use manage.py convert_to_south tastypie?

Solution

  • South manages any app that has a /migrations folder under it. Many 3rd party apps come with migrations built in, if you have south then those migrations are used if not then syncdb runs and you're good to go.

    convert_to_south is a bit of a hack IMO. It essentially runs generates the same thing as the command line --init would but also --fake it. It doesn't really do anything all that "special".